Digging Deeper Jazz Jeff Antoniuk

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 1st, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #23, James and Jeff talk about Memorizing Tunes! We all know we should memorize songs more, but how? "I’m old, and my memory isn’t what it used to be, plus I have the iRealB sitting right here!” Let’s talk about why memorizing ou...

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 24th, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #22, James and Jeff talk about playing Ballads. There is nothing more beautiful to listen to, and scary to play, than a ballad. We are very exposed, and a lot of our "go to moves" don't work on ballads. So, what is a jazz musi...

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 17th, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #21, James and Jeff talk about playing over "sus chords," dominant suspended seventh chords. These chords show up more that a little in the music that we play, so having two or three approaches to them is a great idea for your...

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 10th, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #20, James and Jeff talk about what makes a jazz solo GREAT! Is this something we can practice and learn, or is a great solo really an act of God? Let's look at some ideas here, and see if we can't actually get ourselves furth...

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 3rd, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #19, James talks about Emulating Your Heros. We all want to sound our heroes, and who wouldn’t want to sound like a genius. But, how do we get there? What is the path? It turns out that THE PATH is right here!Mentioned in this ...

Welcome to the J&J on Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 27th, 2021, on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS!In episode #18, Jeff is flying solo without that James guy around to weigh him down. Jeff waxes poetic, Jeff plays a rhythm changes a bunch, and Jeff pontificates on playing IN the chord changes, OVER the chord changes, and even substitutin...